Changes

[[Image:Tax-spend.jpg|thumb|480px|The "tax-and-spend" slogan stuck to Harry Hopkins like a well-fitted suit.]]Each year the English language develops about a thousand new words.  Over the course of a century, that amounts to 100,000 new words.  Since the [[King James Version]] of the [[Bible]] was published in 1611, perhaps a half a million new English words have been developed.

[[Image:Tax-spend.jpg|thumb|480px|The "tax-and-spend" slogan stuck to Harry Hopkins like a well-fitted suit.]]Each year the English language develops about a thousand new words.  Over the course of a century, that amounts to 100,000 new words.  The [[King James Version]] of the [[Bible]], published in 1611, contains about 8,000 different words.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8013859.stm</ref>

The inevitable triumph of conservatism over liberalism is apparent from comparing the rates of generation of new terms of each type, and the quality of the terms so generated.  [[Conservative]] terms are being generated at a faster rate, and with much higher quality, than [[liberal]] terms are.  In the 20th century, for example, more conservative terms were developed, and they were developed at a steadier pace.  The new liberal terms were clustered in the 1920s and 1960s, were fewer in number, and lacked the same high quality.

The inevitable triumph of conservatism over liberalism is apparent from comparing the rates of generation of new terms of each type, and the quality of the terms so generated.  [[Conservative]] terms are being generated at a faster rate, and with much higher quality, than [[liberal]] terms are.  In the 20th century, for example, more conservative terms were developed, and they were developed at a steadier pace.  The new liberal terms were clustered in the 1920s and 1960s, were fewer in number, and lacked the same high quality.